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Product Review: TrueBlue Blueberry Cocktail 2007-05-06 12:00:36 I was recently sent some TrueBlue Blueberry
Cocktail to review. We’re huge blueberry fans around here so I was pretty excited to taste it. Not only because they’re super high in antioxidants but because they taste really good. They’re my husbands favourite berry and Rylan can down a pint in a day. [...]
What A Week It’s Been… 2007-05-04 22:04:58 So, I promised y’all my reasons for not being able to blog this week.
Here they are, in all their glory.
Sunday:
1. After a great visit & playtime with my father in law (pics to follow another day), we the BG did yard work for several hours. Sometime between the BG finishing the front [...]
In The Motherhood 2007-05-08 12:00:48 Have you heard about the new online show “In The Motherhood
?”
Actress Leah Remini (from King of Queens) is the mom of a three year old and is taking motherhood to the big-time with her new mom-focused web series (showing from April 17 through June and on the Ellen DeGeneres Show).
Even cooler, moms [...]
Celebrating Old Fashioned Note Writing 2007-05-07 20:00:11 I’m a techie. I don’t phone (except my parents). I don’t write letters. I rarely even answer the phone. I email. I blog. And that’s about it.
I also have a secret love for stationery. I love buying cool cards and I even design some pretty cool ones myself. [...]
Now You Know 2007-05-07 12:00:08 Now You Know Media is a very small new media company. They work with experts in various fields to record audio lectures on various topics. It’s essentially adult education on CD’s.
So far, they have three categories: Now You Know Health, Now You Know Wealth & Now You Know Religion.
I was asked [...]
Happy Mother’s Day Weekend! 2007-05-11 22:32:57 I’m taking Rylan and deserting the BG to go visit our moms this weekend. The BG wanted to come but he’s helping a friend move tomorrow and it would be along drive for just an overnight stay. I convinced him to stay home because he has to travel for work every day next [...] Read more:Happy
, Weekend
, Happy Mother
Healthy Mother, Healthy Child 2007-05-10 12:00:52 Welcome to today’s stop on the Mother-Talk blog book tour for Healthy Mother, Healthy Child by Elizabeth Irvine.
Beth is a mother, a nurse and a yoga instructor (and apparently a Catholic, which seems a little out of place in this book, but whatever) and she integrates her experience in all of those areas to bring [...]
PSA 2007-05-09 12:00:13 Public Service Announcement:
Do not buy this for your kid’s room.
(Sold only in Asia at the moment, the instructions on the package (Heh. Package) translate to say “Follow me, hug me, kiss me.”)
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We spent the day at Leah’s yesterday and had an awesome time. Primarily thanks to the great company, and a little thanks [...]
Sealed With A Kiss 2007-05-17 21:49:04 Rylan gives real kisses now. I totally love it.
Sometimes they’re still of the French variety, but often they’re the real thing.
Want one?
Heh.
Job update: I’ll be a full time sub for the last 5 weeks of the year. Guaranteed work every day but no planning, no prep, no homework…gotta love it! Read more:Sealed
12 days until I’m back and work and that totally sucks my butt. 2007-05-16 18:21:02 I’m dreading going back to work. I still don’t even know where I’m going.
June is my favourite month. When I’m not working, that is. And I don’t want to miss the days. Strangely enough, I’m not worried about Rylan (much). It’s that mother’s intuition thing. Remember when my intuition [...] Read more:totally
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The Making of Men 2007-05-16 12:00:22 Welcome to today’s stop on the Mother-Talk blog book tour for my new favourite gift for boys!
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn & Hal Iggulden is a package of excitement from the moment you take it out of the box (or pull it off the shelf, if you’re the old fashioned type). The [...]
Long Weekend Gratitude 2007-05-20 17:31:55 I suck at remembering to do these. I had to read Raechelle’s to remember to do mine!
1. I’m grateful for this long weekend to spend extra time with my little family and get the yardwork done.
2. I’m grateful that I got to sleep in for an extra hour this morning. The BG got [...] Read more:Weekend
, Long Weekend
The Cups Overfloweth 2007-05-18 20:05:30 So, how fair is this?
I get pregnant before Rylan’s even close to weaning.
Which? Yeah! A baby!
But? Huge freaking boobs for two more years without a break.
He’s only nursing 1-2 times per day now - when he gets up in the morning and every few days he’ll nurse [...]
What not to say to a woman who’s feeling really old. 2007-05-23 05:00:39 I run into the liquor store to pick up a case of Big Rock for the BG. I had just run to the grocery store for a few things and only had my debit card stuffed in my bra strap. No picture ID.
When I get up to the till with the beer in [...] Read more:woman
What a Weaner. 2007-05-22 11:35:23 My kid? He is amazing.
With a week to go before he starts at his dayhome, he has weaned himself, started sleeping through the night and started getting up at the time he’ll need to get up on work days.
Crazy stuff!
He’d been waking at 9 am for the longest time and I was [...]
The Big Payoff 2007-05-21 05:00:00 It’s another Mother-Talk blog book tour day here at Much More Than a Mom. I’ve been reading up a storm and there’s more to come! I love free books, I love reading and I love telling people what I think. Thank goodness for Mother-Talk! For the last week I’ve been [...] Read more:Payoff
My blog suffers… 2007-05-25 10:30:56 but at least it’s not my kid that suffers
.
My blog can be left alone to fend for itself for a little while. My baby? Not so much.
(Thanks for the sad, sad link, Iz.)
In better news, Rylan’s at the sitter right now for another trial. Day three and he still fights to get [...]
Site Review: Mamasource.com 2007-05-29 05:00:30 My favourite ladies at Mother-Talk recently put out a call for people to review Mamasource. It’s a networking site for mamas that’s unfortunately only for Americans but since I already offered to help out I just made up a zip code. Apparently I’m from Schenectady.
From the site:Mamasource is a safe and easy [...]
Very quick update (You may see a lot of these in the near future) 2007-05-28 20:13:14 Work was great.
My new school is awesome, the kids are fabulous and the people were very welcoming.
The BG stayed home so he and Rylan played all day.
Tomorrow’s his first full day at the babysitter’s house.
I’m only 9 weeks pregnant and none of my clothes fit. Is that a [...]
Back to Work Gratitude 2007-05-27 21:18:41 There’s lots to be grateful for every day around these parts.
1. That Rylan is such a superstar. In time to start going to his dayhome, he’s weaned, walks sometimes, goes down stairs safely, gets up early (5 am’s a little too early, but whatever) and is a total social butterfly. He’s making this [...]
Exhaustion 2007-05-31 21:22:29 My work week is officially over. I’ve been semi-sick all day and have booked a sub for tomorrow. On my fifth day of work. Hmmm. Lack of sleep and relaxation time wreaks havoc on the immune system.
Working is SO MUCH HARDER than being a stay at home mom and I don’t [...] Read more:Exhaustion
Bites n’ Books 2007-06-05 01:00:05 Another busy week at work has begun. I’m loving the schedule I’ve got. Grade two M-Th afternoons and Friday mornings and flex M-Th mornings. I’ve been doing everything from kindergarten to grade five, special ed, field trip supervision, filing and whatever else so it keeps my brain in gear (which it really [...] Read more:Books
Signs of a working mom - #1 2007-06-03 05:00:37 I got groceries last Sunday and prepared all the meals for the week.
Only now, when it’s time to do it all again, have I finally unloaded the last bag and gotten all of the empty bags off the counter.
Welcome to my hell.
I don’t even have time to use my [...] Read more:working
Friday Sucks (when you have to work) 2007-06-08 07:48:25 I made it through the whole week and am even going on Friday
this time! What an accomplishment! Heh.
Rylan’s finally napping at his sitter’s place so all is well with the world, except the fact that I have to go to work today. Fridays are half days for us so I’ll be [...]
I’m Tops 2007-06-10 14:29:58 So, I have no idea what Top Mamma is but I just received an email from them saying I’m one of them and I’m on the front page and I need you guys to click on me. There’s a pic of Rylan and I so I obviously gave it to them at some point! [...]
Ten Things. Or: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire. 2007-06-12 19:31:20 Following, you will find a list of ten things about me which may or may not be lies.
Your job? Leave a comment or email me with your vote for which are true and which are false.
Over the next while, I’ll reveal the truth about each one and if there’s a story to [...] Read more:Pants
FALSE: Being a western Canadian, country music is my absolute fave! (UPDATED) 2007-06-16 09:40:18 I like almost any kind of music EXCEPT country (and thrash metal and rap that uses racial slurs). The twanging makes my ear drums hurt. Some of the more “getting ready for a party” country (some Shania etc) doesn’t make me throw up in my mouth but I’d never listen to it by [...] Read more:Canadian
TRUE: All of my serious relationships before the BG were with Mormons. 2007-06-20 23:06:13 Surprised?
It’s true! And they were both complete losers. I have NO idea what I was thinking. My darling husband makes fun of me for it on a regular basis. One never graduated from high school that I know of and the other may still be in a mental institution. Ha! [...] Read more:serious
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True: I am allergic to cats…and in addition - some miscellany. 2007-06-18 20:02:10 Yep, it’s true. And yep, I have had my Chloe for 11 years and love her tons.
I had never really been around cats over the course of my life - we had dogs and I rode horses, but that’s it. In high school I had a boyfriend who’s sister had a [...]
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